Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of this alliance, Maurois asserted, makes a serious European war an impossibility in the next twenty years, and the more closely the ties between these three nations are drawn, the more remote the possibility of war will become. Nothing will be more effective in strengthening them than an understanding of the essential humor of each nation...
Whatever it may be in the theories of the President and his Fellows, Harvard is in fact an oligarchy. By the common practice at the nation's oldest university, matters of policy are settled at the top, and any voice which is suffered from the nether reaches of the faculty or the administration is in practice limited to an advisory function. This is true in the central governing body of the University; it is true within each separate department. It holds in general for most decisions on policy; it holds in particular for decisions on appointment and tenure...
...believe that Professor Bridgman errs as a scientist, for science and truth can never be the property of any one nation or of any one political theory. . . . The only way to expose the falseness of the doctrines of Fascism and Naziism is to provide for the greatest possible exchange of information so that the inconsistency and failures of these theories may be illuminated by the dazzling light of truth: Even while he is decrying totalitarianism Professor Bridgman succumbs to it by his methods, since he would employ the same type of tactics as they...
...selling the farmer. The committee's researchers conducted 20,362 personal interviews on farms and in communities of less than 2,500 population in 96 sample counties scattered throughout the 48 States. What they found out, they consider a fairly accurate slant on the radio habits of the nation's 9,470,000 rural radio families...
...evidence of the New Deal's intent to break the utility log jam. Besides that, Treasury experts have already drafted 85 proposed revisions of taxes which now deter business; Franklin Roosevelt himself last week plumped for A. F. of L. -C. I. 0. peace and proposals by the nation's stock exchanges to reshape the Securities acts in order to revive the dormant capital market have actually been "welcomed...